Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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JJhilorml NCE more, after two years have elapsed, the Kenyon Reveille is presented to its readers. We have tried to make it as accurate and attractive as possible. The last two years have been truly interesting years in the history of Kenyon College in almost every respect. The only thing to be regretted, both by students and faculty, was the resignation of Prof. (J. A. Strong, Professor of English Literature and Rhetoric, a man liked and respected by all who knew him. Never will those who had the pleasure to recite to him, and listen to his lectures, forget how pleasant and inter- esting he made everything. The College has been gradually increasing in its numbers, there being now twice as many in the College properas there were when the last Reveille was launched forth to be read and criticised by our little world. The standard of scolarship has been raised almost tw ice as high as it was formerly, and the College curriculum made considerably harder, and the present upper classmen take consolation in the thought that they are so near Commencement. Our worthy and respected President deserves to be commended by all who take any interest in old Kenyon, for the strenuous exertions he has made, and is still making, in behalf of the College. It may be plainly seen that his heart is in his work. The Class of 80, about to be thrown out upon the cold, cold world, and about to commence battle against its storms and tem- pests of life, is like all other senior classes. Hut in spite of all her failings, she has many redeeming features; she is, and has been, endowed with a great amount of class feeling. She lias started several new customs, which w ill undoubtedly be handed (

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Inlrnhudion UK object of this publication is neither to make the authors famous, nor to fill their pockets with gold; but partly to reform, and partly to rescue from oblivion’s thickening dust the names of those of our fellow students and pro- fessors whose merit, though never shown by outward acts, we think must exist somewhere in the “deep recesses of their souls. For as a just God could never make a creature entirely destitute of noble qualities, and, as these persons have never been known to exhaust their virtues by their good deeds, we naturally conclude that a mine of wealth is still hidden neatli a barren exterior. We ask all whom it may concern to be patient and persevering in their search, for there is a bare possibility that they may strike the happy vein. Of their learning, we can at least say that it is “sufficient to raise them from the insignificance of dunces to the dignity of bores. The names not mentioned are con- sidered unworthy of a place in these pages, and also unworthy of the reader s notice. To our fellow students we will he very frank; as for our professors, we must, from interest. He to their virtues very kind, Hut to their faults a little blind. Let those who find their names recorded here ponder deep and mend their ways, and they may yet become such as Kenyon need not blush to own. We do not write to blame nor to praise, but to instruct and improve. With such intentions, we do not shrink from giving offense, if, by so doing, we may correct a fault Some faults, we believe, it is within the power of the Almighty alone to correct Hut knowing that “Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven, we cheerfully attempt our work of reformation. (1

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EDITORI A down to time immemorial in Kenvon. As she draws near the commencement platform let us nil congratulate her, and with our voices resounding through the classic halls of old Alma Mater shout, “May you long survive the terrible ordeal through which you have passed, and the monstrous amount of work you have done at Kenyon.” '81 is, and always has been, the smallest class in College, in point of number, though probably not in the size of her members, and she is not so much to be condemned for those things she has failed to do, as for those which she has not failed to do, with the means at hand. She was the last class ever hazed at Kenyon, and in her Sophomore year gained many victories over the Freshmen, ller Junior year has thus far been free from anything of special interest. 81 will, we think, make a most admirable Senior class, and will undoubtedly(?) distinguish herself in after years. Now we feel compelled to say something concerning that grand and glorious class of 82. In her Freshman year, 82 was a model class, inasmuch as greenness is said to be characteristic of Fresh- men. As a Sophomore class she has yet done nothing to immor- talize her name, but we have hopes of 82's future, and believe that she is, by imitating ‘80, slowly approaching that high standard of morality long sustained by the aforesaid class. '88 comes next; she is in her Freshman year. What is ex- pected from Freshmen? Surely not much; but yet some little. Has she fulfilled, and will she fulfill, all expectations? We hope, sincerely hope, so; and some day, when we are far away from Gambier, we will expect to hear good reports of '83. The ground usually covered in an editorial of a publication of this character has been hastily passed over. Hut before closing we wish to say, and to emphatically emphasize it, that if any one takes offense at anything herein stated, he does so on his own responsibility, and should remember that parts of this hook were written in jest; and moreover, that the Hoard of Editors of the Kenyon Reveille have a whole arsenal at their disposal.